Nb. 8 - December 21st, 2023 - A busy year and great perspectives for 2024

Facts and figure about 2023
  - 1 Minister and 4 Deputies of the Walloon Brabant Province have had some great interest in our platforms
   - The 4 BW2030 stakeholders - InBW, Invest.BW, the Province of Walloon Brabant and UCLouvain - confirmed their support
  - 4 topics - Deeptech, Medtech, Digital, Transition - for 4 morning meetings between companies and platforms
  - 35 news over the months highlighted the activity of the platforms in terms of research, teaching, training and collaborations with companies
  - 4 newsletters were mailed to nearly 1100 subscribers
  - Over 1,000 photos of the platforms' equipment and teams have been produced

And 2024 is very promising, with new equipment soon operational, new testimonials from companies that have worked with the platforms, the hiring of a project manager to develop a common equipment inventory and management system, and several projects to create new platforms.

Looking forward to the New Year, let's close 2023 with some latest news from the platforms : innovation in market gardening, new equipment, new self-learning modules and some live images from the platforms.
Our best wishes for 2024!

The platforms Community

Pictures captured within the Lasers and Optics (LAS&O) platform - © Yvan Flamant

Do not hesitate to talk about this initiative and to relay it around so that an ever-growing public is informed of what is happening within the UCLouvain platforms!
 

Research and innovation

The Fermes universitaires de Louvain are launching the Baillet Latour Prize for Innovation in Market Gardening 2024. For the fifth year, the €10,000 prize will be awarded to an innovative project in sustainable vegetable production on a farm in Wallonia or the Brussels-Capital Region.

Fermes universitaires de Louvain
• Field crops, farming and market gardening
• Over 100 hectares to study environmental, agricultural and food issues
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... with new equipment

New computing cluster at CISM: twice the power. CISM welcomes Lemaitre4 - its new computing cluster - which will offer more than 5,000 computing cores, a hyper-fast network and storage, with performance more than double that of its predecessor Lemaitre3.

Center for High Performance Computing and Mass Storage
• Scientific computing clusters and data storage
• Consultancy and training
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Animal facilities
• Housing, breeding and experimentation on rodents and fishes
• Animal welfare expertise and advice for the different housed species (Animal Welfare Units)
• Expertise in the breeding of single or multiple transgenic lines
• Breeding of fish model

New equipment to improve animal welfare
A convention signed between UCLouvain and Wallonia, has enabled the ANCA platform to acquire new equipment to improve the welfare of the animals and their health status.

... State-of-the-art equipment? For which application?

Platform equipment is clearly at the cutting edge of technology. But for which applications? Which platform is equipped? This new section aims to provide some answers.

Keyence optical microscope, model VHX - Up to 6000x image magnification
  • Imaging of rupture surfaces
  • 3D reconstruction of complex parts
  • Observation of the microstructure of materials
  • Roughness measurement

Analysis, characterization, and processing laboratory
 • Processing of materials (metallic materials and polymers)
• Chemical analysis
• Microstructural characterisation  
 

Training courses

Statistical Methodology and Computing Service
Data analysis training courses and consultancy services

New at SMCS : Online self-learning training sessions accessible to all, at any time
Would you like to study data analysis regardless of time or place? Now you can!

When art meets science

Pictures captured using microscopes, imaging technologies or other scientific means are highlighted by the Institute of Mechanics, Materials and civil engineering. Some of them have been produced using equipment from the CREDEM and LACaMi platforms.

Design, prototyping and testing of electromechanical devices
Prototypes tailored to meet specific needs in a large variety of research areas: robotics, mechatronics, bioengineering, fluid mechanics, process engineering, thermodynamics, and energy.
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Analysis, characterization, and processing laboratory
 • Processing of materials (metallic materials and polymers)
• Chemical analysis
• Microstructural characterisation
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A look back at some of the platforms

Pictures captured within the CICN, CRC, FERM, IMABIOL, MASSPROT, LAS&O, MICA, P2C, SMCS,  WELCOME and WINFAB platforms - © Yvan Flamant

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